Flowers for Algernon Quiz
  • 1. Charlie fails his first inkblot test because he ...
A) cannot understand what he is supposed to see besides the ink
B) sees images that upset him in the inkblots
C) thinks the test is boring
D) is afraid of making a mistake in front of Dr. Strauss
  • 2. Why does Charlie agree to have the operation?
A) He wants to beat Algernon in the maze test
B) He wants to be able to get a better job
C) He wants to be smart and know things like other people do
D) He wants to please Dr. Strauss and Miss Kinnian
  • 3. What do the factory workers mean by saying someone "pulled a Charlie Gordon"?
A) Someone lost something
B) Someone had an operation
C) Someone did something funny
D) Someone did something stupid
  • 4. What makes Charlie sad when he takes Miss Kinnian out for dinner?
A) He knows he will leave her behind intellectually
B) Miss Kinnian doesn't love him
C) Miss Kinnian will refuse to have anything to do with him
D) Miss Kinnian thinks she was wrong to encourage him to have the operation
  • 5. Which of the following events was NOT caused by the event in which Charlie defends the boy in the restaurant?
A) Charlie realizes how intelligent he has become
B) Charlie decides to wokr in the field of human intelligence
C) Charlie is disgusted with himself for laughing at the boy
D) Charlie remembers how he also used to play the clown
  • 6. When Charlie becomes a genius, his most important discovery is ...
A) his theory about how quickly artificially increased intelligence deteriorates
B) that he has to communicate with Miss Kinnian on a simple level
C) the Dr. Nemur doesn't know the work on experimental intelligence in India
D) that Algernon will soon die
  • 7. Charlie leaves New York because ...
A) he doesn't want the men at the factory to laugh at him again
B) his landlady throws him out because he hasn't paid rent
C) he doesn't want people to be sorry for him
D) he can't get a job now that he isn't a genius
  • 8. Which of the following episodes is repeated in the story to make parallel episodes?
A) Charlie has an operation
B) The factory workers get Charlie drunk
C) The factory workers force Charlie to leave his work
D) Charlie and Algernon are presented to the American Psychological Association
  • 9. How is the subplot involving Charlie and the scientists resolved?
A) Charlie gives Dr. Strauss and inferiority complex
B) Dr. Strauss tries to visit Charlie, but Charlie won't let him in
C) Charlie overtakes them in intelligence and finds the flaw in their experiment
D) Dr. Nemur publishes his report and leaves Dr. Strauss out of it
  • 10. What is Charlie's main internal conflict throughout the story?
A) Trying to figure out what causes people to laugh at others
B) Trying to get along with the factory workers
C) Trying to understand his own mind and the nature of intelligence
D) Trying to learn to read and spell correctly
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